Melissa Wells

Skittles Project
1. Proportion Yellow Candies: Construct a 99% confidence interval estimate for the
population proportion of yellow candies. Use technology to find the interval, and then
also verify your result using the formulas. Show your computations, using an equation
editor to format your work. Use a complete sentence to interpret this interval, in
context.
n = 6871 (Total number of candies)
x = 1428 (Total number of yellow candies)
𝛼 = 0.01
Critical Value = 𝒛𝛼
2

𝑍 = 0.005 = 2.575
1428
𝑝̂ = 6871 = .2078300102

.2078300102 (1−.2078300102)
E = 2.575 √ = .0126046439
6871

Using the TI 84: STAT – Tests – 1PropZInt

Lower Bound: .19522

Upper Bound: .22044

In this case, we can be 99% confident that the proportion of yellow Skittles in any bag would be
between .19522 and .22044

2. Mean Number of Candies: Construct a 95% confidence interval estimate for the
population mean number of candies per bag. Use technology to find the interval, and
then also verify your result using the formulas. Show your computations, using an
equation editor to format your work. Use a complete sentence to interpret this interval,
in context.
n = 118 (Total bags of candy)
s = 3.018055882 (Sample Standard Deviation)
𝛼 = 0.05
Degrees of Freedom = 117
𝛼
(Critical Value) 𝑡 2 = t 0.025 = 2.015
6871
𝑥= = 58.22881356
118
3.018055882
Ε = (2.015) = .5598366465
√118
Lower Bound: 58.2 – 0.5598 = 57.6402
Upper Bound: 58.2 + 0.5598 = 58.7598

In this case, we can be 95% confident that the mean number of Skittles in a randomly selected bag is
between 58 and 59.